"Thanks to Sustainable Path's pivotal, early funding for the Northwest BioCarbon Initiative, we were able to gain traction with key innovators, generate media attention, and create the intellectual framework for biocarbon to play a critical role in addressing our climate crisis"-Greg Small, Climate Solutions Executive Director

Congratulations to Our 2017 Founders’ Award Recipient

Zero Waste Washington has been selected in honor of SueEllen Melle. She joined WA Citizens For Resource Conservation (WCFR) over a dozen years ago. WCFR renamed itself as Zero Waste WA in 2010. SueEllen retired this past December as the Director of Zero Waste WA.

Zero Waste Washington’s mission statement:

Zero Waste Washington protects people and our natural world by advocating for products designed and produced to be healthy, safe, and continually recycled and reused. We are the public’s voice for zero waste.

Sustainable Path’s first grant was made to WCFR in 2007.

Overall, Sustainable Path has awarded four grants (three to WCFR and one to Zero Waste WA, totaling $49,000).

2016 Founders’ Award Recipient

OCEANS INITIATIVE

Oceans Initiative uses cutting-edge science and is on a mission to protect marine life, including whales, dolphins, sharks, salmon & seabirds, in the Pacific Northwest and beyond.

Sustainable Path board member Nan McKay noted that “The board wanted to celebrate Oceans Initiative becoming an official 501(c)(3) in Washington State and to support their important research to improve protection of marine mammals in the Salish Sea.”

Oceans Initiative was co-founded by Erin Ashe and Rob Williams.

The current focus of Erin’s research is the white-sided Pacific dolphin.

Impotence: millions of the world men are affected

From their data, American scientists found that about 18 million men between 40 and 70 years of age suffer from erectile dysfunction in the US. Urologists from Los Angeles, USA have transferred this calculation to the local conditions: According to this, four to six million of all men are affected. In order to estimate the frequency of potency problems in men, scientists had long been dependent on a study from the 1940s. Recent, scientifically acknowledged studies have shown that increasing age and certain chronic diseases increase the risk of becoming impotent. Read more on these pages...